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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Education Department, which finally waded itself out of the Plus Two school muddle, has another big challenge ahead. It’s been nearly two months since the academic year began, but there’s no clarity on when free uniforms will reach close to eight lakh children in government schools.

When Sunny Varkey was 4 years old, his parents left him in the care of family members in his native India while they “went to seek green pastures” teaching English as a second language in Dubai in the late 1950s, in what was then a sleepy British protectorate on the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf.

When Sunny Varkey was 4 years old, his parents left him in the care of family members in his native India while they “went to seek green pastures” teaching English as a second language in Dubai in the late 1950s, in what was then a sleepy British protectorate on the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf.